The first three octets of an ethernet MAC address comprise the Organizational Unique Identifier (OUI) granted to ethernet card manufacturers by the IEEE. Occasionally, it is useful to be able to find the manufacturer of a particular card, so I wrote a script to do so.

If you call it like ouilookup.pl <OUI>, it searches a local copy of the list of registered OUIs available from the IEEE at http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt. If the -i option is used, it actually searches the file on the IEEE website.

This is not a perfect way to find the manufacturer because according to the IEEE, not all companies assigned an OUI have elected to make their OUI public. In addition, because subcontracting, the holder of the OUI may not be the actual manufacturer.

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Held an eclipse party
Watched a live feed
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I tried to see it, but 8000 miles of rock got in the way
What eclipse?
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